Recent content by LucasXXII

How is Pep heads and shoulders above the likes of Ole, Lampard and Arteta with the squad he has, the money he’s spent, and City being behind the PL champion by 19 points and knocked out by Lyon in the UCL last season? The Barcelona bias here is so blatant

:lol: Barcelona has always played boring tippy-tappy football. Bielsa's Leeds is nothing like that, his football is actually fast-paced and good to watch

Wow How easily triggered can one be?

Telles who's soon to be 28 years old is not a "kid"

What an electric player he was.

Kazuyoshi Miura playing for J1 League's Yokohama FC at 53 years old. What I've read is that he's clearly not good enough for this level now, but kept playing because of sponsors and all that. According to transfermarkt, the last season he played more than 1000 minutes was 2012, and his club was...

How is it a bad thing that big clubs find it harder to snatch young elite talents from smaller clubs?

The usual snobbishness here against teams that dare to not play a possession-based style :lol: No reason why they can't finish above the likes of Brighton when the latter can neither score nor defend anyway.

Appointing a DoF (and other technical directors) is to make sure that the philosophy and ideas of the club is consistent when a new head coach has to be appointed, and that the head coach can be more focused on his actual on-the-field job.

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Is there an underlying sentiment that playing through the middle is more respectable than whipping in a cross? I mean, that's a major reason why Barcelona, among other successful teams in CL (namely Madrid in 2014-2018), is put on a pedestal and Ronaldo is considered as "can't create", isn't...

By official rules, football is not played on the feet but by all parts of the body except the hands. By extension, football is also played in the mind. So no, football is not just on-the-ball ability, let alone just "dribbling and playing the final pass while looking aesthetically pleasing"...

You're preaching to the choir here. This is exactly what I'm saying, there is no persuading the traditional football viewers, because in their views a player must have a certain playing style (i.e. very good at dribbling and playmaking) to be a GOAT. If Cristiano does the unthinkable and leads...

I'd like to be able to say so yeah, but you know, Messi is magic and stuff ;)

This will only get somewhat interesting if Ronaldo won the next Euro again. Until then, no matter what Ronaldo does, football traditionalists will always favor Messi because they value playmaking and dribbling above everything else (which is precisely all those intangible factors in football...